ITALIAN ARMY
READY FOR EVENTUALITIES ACCORDING TO CHIEF OF STAFF. OUTPUT OF WAR INDUSTRIES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) ROME, May 16. General Pariani, Chief of Staff, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies, said the army was ready for all eventualities. The classes recently called up had yielded 90 per cent of their total manpower. It had been possible to reinforce all units in Libya and in the Aegean. War industries shortly, would be yielding four times their present output. Mechanisation was progressing and Army contractors were able to produce seven million tins of corned beef and a million tins of soup monthly. Italy’s peacetime strength was fifty-one infantry divisions and thirteen special divisions. \ '
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1939, Page 6
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117ITALIAN ARMY Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1939, Page 6
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